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Fifty years ago, in a small town most Americans never had heard of, two of the most powerful people on the planet met in an historic building on a tiny college campus to attempt to resolve some of the issues of the day. The month was June 1967. The town was Glassboro, New Jersey. The leaders were American President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. The building was Hollybush. The location was Glassboro State College, now Rowan University. And the Cold War threatened to heat up, with the world worrying that a crisis in the Middle East could escalate to the two major superpowers going head to head. On Saturday, June 24, Rowan University and Borough of Glassboro will mark the 50th anniversary of the Summit at Hollybush with a range of activities.

It might not come as a surprise that someone with the title “Dr.” is hard at work developing tools to evaluate health care at the one of the region’s premier medical facilities, Cooper University Hospital.

Trading in their stethoscopes and white coats for tassels and academic robes, the 157 graduates of the School of Osteopathic Medicine strode proudly across the stage to accept well-earned congratulations as they achieved the next milestone in their academic careers – the right to be called “doctor.”

Approximately 700 graduate and undergraduate students happily endured intermittent spritzing rain to celebrate their graduation from Rowan University’s College of Science & Mathematics during Commencement ceremonies on Thursday, May 11.